Ontology Matching

Introduction

Monday, October 24th - 09:00 - 18:00 - Room: Reger

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals:

• To bring together leaders from , and institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve.

• To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2011 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., open linked data and biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs.

• To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools.

Find further information on the workshop's website here.

Organization

Organizing Committee

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact), TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy (E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] i)
• Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & LIG, France
  
• Tom Heath, Talis Systems Ltd, UK
  
• Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Ming Mao, SAP Labs, USA
• Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee

• Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Chris Bizer, University of Berlin, Germany
• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Paolo Bouquet, OKKAM, Italy
• Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
• Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Gabriele Francescotto, OpenContent, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Bin He, IBM, USA
• Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Anja Jentzsch, FU-Berlin, Germany
• Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
• Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
• Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
• Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Italy
• Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
• Yefei Peng, Google, USA
• Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA
• François Scharffe, LIRMM, France
• Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
• Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
• Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France
• Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
• Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
• Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China